Makefile madness

[michael sweet]

What I do in my makefiles is something like the following:

OBJS = .o files...

..

depend: $(OBJS:.o=.c)
    makedepend -- $(CFLAGS) -- $(OBJS:.o=.c)

By using the modifier on the OBJS variable, I only have to maintain a
single list of object files.  For automated RCS updates, I also have a
list of header files which goes along with the OBJS...  Also, if you do
mixed-language work, you can define say FOBJS for FORTRAN stuff, and
COBJS for C stuff.  Oh, if you _do_ do mixed-language programming, I
have a little shell script which will generate FORTRAN dependencies for
you.  It works in conjunction with makedepend (for any C files) to generate
a new dependency list.

 -Mike Sweet

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